France and UK to clash at EU over working hours

France and Britain were poised to clash today at European Union talks seeking to end London’s decades-old opt-out of the EU’s 48-hour maximum working week.

France and UK to clash at EU over working hours

France and Britain were poised to clash today at European Union talks seeking to end London’s decades-old opt-out of the EU’s 48-hour maximum working week.

EU employment ministers in Brussels, Belgium, will try to close loopholes in a 1993 labour law that have given Britain and other opponents exemptions from the working time rules.

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